SUSE Linux Enterprise High Perfor­mance Compu­ting

A highly scalable, high performance open source operating system designed to utilize the power of parallel computing for modeling, simulation and advanced analytics applications.

SUSE Linux Enterprise for High Performance Computing (HPC) provides a parallel computing platform for high performance data analytics workloads such as artificial intelligence and machine learning. Fueled by the need for more compute power and scale, businesses around the world today are recognizing that a high performance computing infrastructure is vital to supporting the analytics applications of tomorrow. This product is built for easy adoption across lower-cost Arm-based hardware all the way up to the largest supercomputers in the world – with a focus on flexibility and providing SUSE-supported capabilities (i.e., Slurm for workload management) for today’s HPC environments.

Tech Specs

HPC Module

SUSE makes adopting HPC easier to implement by adding packages to the HPC module. This module is intended to simplify deployment and management of HPC environments by providing a number of fully supported HPC packages to SUSE Linux Enterprise HPC customers.

These packages were built and tested by SUSE and are provided at no additional cost with the SUSE Linux Enterprise HPC support subscription. All of the packages are open source and many are based on packages from OpenHPC. The HPC module is provided for customers using X86-64 and ARM AArch64 platforms and is available to customers with SLE HPC subscriptions.

The module structure allows SUSE to deliver additions and enhancements to HPC packages more frequently than is possible via Service Packs. Here is the list of packages and release numbers available in the HPC module currently:

conman 0.2.8

cpuid 20170122 (X86 only)

fftw 3.3.6

ganglia 3.7.2

ganglia-web 3.7.2

genders 1.2.2

hdf5 1.10.1

hwloc 1.11.8

lua-lmod 7.6.1

memkind 1.6.0 (X86 only)

mpip 3.4.1

mrsh 2.12

munge 0.5.13

mvapich2 2.2.13

netcdf 4.6.1

netcdf-cxx 4.3.0

netcdf-fortran 4.4.4

numpy 1.14.0

openblas 0.2.20

openmpi 2.1.3

papi 5.5.1

pdsh 2.33

petsc 3.8.3

powerman 2.3.24

prun 1.0

rasdaemon 0.5.7

ScaLAPACK 2.0.2

Slurm 17.11.5

Minimum Hardware Requirements

SUSE Linux Enterprise for High Performance Computing is fully supported on any x-86-64-based or ARM64-based SUSE YES Certified server platform that is certified for the SUSE Linux Enterprise Server versions listed in the Minimum System Requirements section of our documentation: